As a staff writer for Phoenix New Times, award winning journalist Terry Greene Sterling reported for years on the political brawls and human tragedies that have made Arizona the epicenter for the national immigration debate. Sterling is now a contributor for The Daily Beast, and Writer-in-Residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University….
But for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s landmark 1948 film The Red Shoes, the world might not know the name Martin Scorsese. A fable about ballet, you ask, influenced the auteur of Taxi Driver and Goodfellas? Yes. Because it’s also about movement and light and color — the kind of breathtaking color (gloriously lensed by Technicolor-anointed cinematographer Jack Cardiff) that…
Sustainable living has been experiencing its own version of a Burning Man gathering since August 4, when the Midwest Permaculture Convergence hit Lawrence. Except, this is a gathering of eco-activists trying to save the planet, not body-painted glow-stick twirlers having a techno orgy. Example: California permaculture educator Warren Brush. Through Sunday, he’s leading a series of workshops on sustainable design…
Often, when people see an intriguing sport on cable television, they ignore it. Not so the Kansas City Power, KC’s entrant in the U.S. Australian Rules Football League. Since 1998, the team has played “footy,” an exciting sport combining the violence of rugby and the free-flowing style of a well-played soccer match. A number of clubs and teams formed organically…
Often, when people see an intriguing sport on cable television, they ignore it. Not so the Kansas City Power, KC’s entrant in the U.S. Australian Rules Football League. Since 1998, the team has played “footy,” an exciting sport combining the violence of rugby and the free-flowing style of a well-played soccer match. A number of clubs and teams formed organically…
During the golden age of American musical theater, it was common practice for Hollywood to borrow musicals from Broadway. We must be in some sort of alternative golden age because the norm these days is the opposite. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was an early entry in a long line of Hollywood pictures adapted to the Broadway stage. The 1994…
Joelle Ford’s work includes dimensional collage, but the pieces on exhibit are flat collages incorporating vintage photographs and drawings that Ford has collected over the years. July 23-Aug. 7, 2010 Tags: Joelle Ford, Night & Day
• Nobody likes a good portmanteau more than Neuromancer author William Gibson, or whoever came up with the term sexcapade. An interesting partnership of Kansas City artists comprising Matthew Endersbe and Chad Collins and called Surimpop makes its debut at Belle Epoque Salon (1518 Walnut, 816-421-2040) at 6 p.m. “Surimpop” is a clever portmanteau of surrealism, impressionism and pop. Belle…
• Nobody likes a good portmanteau more than Neuromancer author William Gibson, or whoever came up with the term sexcapade. An interesting partnership of Kansas City artists comprising Matthew Endersbe and Chad Collins and called Surimpop makes its debut at Belle Epoque Salon (1518 Walnut, 816-421-2040) at 6 p.m. “Surimpop” is a clever portmanteau of surrealism, impressionism and pop. Belle…
The annual Johnson County Fair is a fun filled family friendly event with free parking and admission in downtown Gardner, Kansas. This year’s events feature a carnival, various arena events, the Mobile Dairy Classroom with a real cow milking parlor, free stage acts of music, dance, and magic and various 4-H and FFA exhibits and contests. There is always plenty…
From the artist’s statement: From the artist’s statement: re:vision quest is about my own re:invention. my person, my life, my world, my style. it is about re:shaping the outer world as my inner self manifests anew. sometimes, life tosses dung heaps upon you. sometimes, the events allows you to flourish and thrive and grow into something entirely different. entirely re:envisioned….
Jaws may have invented the summer blockbuster 35 years ago, but 50 summers ago, Alfred Hitchcock’s low-budget thriller Psycho — risqué and unprecedentedly graphic — forever changed how movies were made, marketed and watched. Noted film historian and critic David Thomson, who examines the phenomenon in his book The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder,…
In the talent competition at this year’s Miss Missouri pageant, Miss Gateway St. Louis Erika Hebron went with a lyrical dance set to the song “Brave” — and went on to win the crown. Though it’s possible that participants in this year’s Miss Riot Room contest might perform similar dance-type moves in the talent competition, they also must dazzle the…
The event kicks off at 10:30am with a pet parade and then from 11am-3pm we will have live music, food, games, and contests (ugliest dog, prettiest dog, best trick). Rabies vaccinations will be available for $5, microchips for $10, heartworm testing performed and pets will be available for adoption. Plus, kids identification and a police department ID program for kids….
In Terry Gilliam’s dystopian and hilarious Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays an office drone whose soul-crushing job can’t keep him from soaring into the heavens and repeatedly saving a beautiful maiden in his dreams. In Mike Judge’s Office Space, Ron Livingston plays an office drone whose soul-crushing job drives him to rebellious and sometimes felonious deeds of self-actualization. Filmmakers, who don’t…
What with all the warm feelings we’ve developed for the Macondo Prospect oil field (500 feet under the Gulf of Mexico) since beloved energy company BP finally capped the gushing well, it may come as a surprise that some people still have hard, prickly feelings about the company’s lapses in safety, drilling practices, and the indiscriminate use of chemical dispersants…
Sherry Winkinhofer with the Model A Club will present a swingin’ & singin’ celebration of the music of the Model A era at 7pm on Tuesday, August 10. Winkinhofer’s presentation will feature the sounds of Big Band horns and the crooning melodies of Rudy Vallee that became as much a staple of American life as the Model A from 1927-1933….
The paintings of Lawrence-based Molly Murphy have a scratchy, textural quality, a visual dryness underlying the often lush tendrils of foliage and ornate linework that surround her figures — masked wrestlers, middle-aged nudes, Madonnas. Tonight she opens Spatial Constructions, an exhibit of work at BNIM Architects in the historic Power and Light Building at 106 West 14th Street. The paintings,…
The tasseled and satiny costumes of neo-burlesque performers tend to reflect the early 20th century, when the cheeky-but-sexy performance style boomed in America. But during Sinsations Glam-O-Rama at Balanca’s Pyro Room (1809 Grand, 816-474-6369), expect less Mae West and more David Bowie, when such Sinsations performers as Nik Nightengale and Hot Hot Heather swap out their stilettos for platform shoes….
Go fly a kite! Really! You’ll be in good company near Shelter 1 at Olathe’s Heritage Park (16050 Pflumm), where the Kansas City Kite Club gathers on the second Sunday of the month to send swaths of brightly colored fabric sailing through the skies. Depending on which kite masters show up, the wind could carry an elaborate, six-sided rokkaku kite…
The Side Pockets franchise sprinkles the metro with cheap beer and plenty of pool tables. Get your balls rolling at one of these fine, locally owned locations.• Side Pockets Lenexa (13320 West 87th Street, 913-888-7665). Get domestic bottles for $2.75 all day. Free Texas hold ’em starts at 7 p.m. This strip-mall joint is open from 10 a.m. to 2…
Providing barbecue at a literary event may sound like a risky proposition — sauce-covered fingers and wet napkins smudging pages, authors choking on pulled pork — but the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400) is throwing caution to the wind. Burnt ends and books collide as novelist Doug Worgul presents Thin Blue Smoke along with barbecue from…
Since taking the post of music editor at The Pitch, it’s been my pleasure to brave the deep, winding trenches of Kansas City’s music scene. I’ve watched local musicians throw down sick riffs, and spray spit and spill liquor on the stages of every dark, dingy bar that would let me in. They’ve bummed cigarettes from me, and I’ve returned…
Wolfmother’s music provides a fine example of the time-honored tradition of ’70s rawk, but the band’s story is equally archetypal. Within seven short years of forming, the true-to-their-roots Aussies won a Grammy, took their debut album platinum, headlined slots at major festivals — and broke up. In 2008, founding members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left Afro-wearing frontman Andrew Stockdale….
